Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-11-12


Another got a diary for '7S, IN sudo-
phone and q truss.
Still another got cigar case, q spec
tacle case and case of smallpox.
In my opinion q man is fool who
will sit up nights and lose his rest in
order to rob trains when he can go to
Congress and get in his little work on
the surplus. Nye, IN Boston Globe.
/ THE INDUSTRIAL % uTH. ].
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% ths gify sR Chattsnoosa
|. The soil Of Chattanooga is fertile in
iron. 1t underiies the very city. and
everywhere ribs the vast mountains
which surround it and stretch away on
every side as far as the eye can reach.
But iron dug out OF the ground is mixed
with impurities that need-to be purged
away before tits fit for its nultitudinous
uses. These auxiliary materials are
generally found at such distances from
the ore as to involve heavy cost in
transportation. But in this section they
lie side by side and all together, the
iron with the coal needed for coke, the
limestone for smelling the ore, and the
fire-clay and sandstone for the construc-
ton Of furnaces. An idea of these min
,eral resources thus tributary to Chatta-
nDoga can mot better be given than in
the words of General John 7. Wilder.
the founder Of the iron-works at Rock
wood. He says:
.'The coal-field of Tennessee extends
entirely across the State, from Kentucky
to Georgia and Alabama, being an ex-
tension Of the Appalachian. coal-fields.
whose northern extremity is in Northern
Pennsylvania, and extends southwest
erly across Pennsylvania, West Vir-
lginia, Eastern Kentucky. Tennessee,
and ends In Central Alabama. The
fcoal-field of Tennessee covers 5,l00
square miles; there are about 1000
square miles in Alabama, and 250
square miles in Georgia, all belonging
to the lower coal measures. All these
broad acres, excepting a small area in
Alabama, form covering for the Cum
berland table-land, raised above the
surrounding country, with an outcrop
above the drainage of the valleys on
either side. easily opened, ventilated
and drained"
Throughout this extensive region are
wonderful beds of fossiliferous red
hematite iron ore, none of it more than
fifteen miles from the eastern outcrop
of the coal measures, and all of it
covered by the great limestone beds OF
the subcarboniferous period. "All these
formations lie like the leaves of a book,
fat, bedded on each other, and general
ly tilted up and broken into high ridges,
.srfolded into deep synclinal troughs or
SAlleys, in either case exposing the
edges of the ore beds, making it easy to
find, ready to mine, abundant in guam
tity, always accessible. These beds
usually average four or five feet in
thickness, sometimes more" The
General adds in regard to one species
OF the timber of this region: 1.-The
largest forests of chestnut-oak in the
United States, producing the best
quality OF tan-bark, cover the coal-tields
OF Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama.
supplying the largest oak-tannery on
the continent, at Chattanooga, and
furnishing tan-bark for the towns
OF St. Louis, Louisville and Gin
cinnati. They are sufficient in
area to supply 100000 cords per year
for an indefinite period without exhaus-
tion, as the tree reaches maturity in our
climate in forty years. and grows on an
area of over 1000, 600 acres; and if cut
once in forty years, and producing only
two cords per tree. it would produce
perpetuslly $4,000 cords each year.
One cord of chestnut-oak tan-bark
grown in this latitude produces thirty
three, per cent. more tannin than all the
bark grown north Of the Kanawha
river" .a
Other woods equally valuable sur.
round Chattanooga. The city is in the
midst Of a vast forest, where not one
sixth of the land has yet been subjected
to cultivation. Besides oak, there are
chestnut and black walnut standing
there in almost inexhaustible supply
and primeva grandeur. Here, too, is
hickory enough to make the wagons Of
q continent, and a sufficient supply OF
red cedar is growing on the Clinch river
alone to furnish hollow-ware to every
American housekeeper for another cen
tury.-H Ha7per'S Magazine.